Viktor Heikel
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Finnish teacher and promoter of school gymnastics
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frans Viktor Heikel was a Finland-Swedish gymnastics teacher, known as "the father of Finnish school gymnastics". Life Heikel was born in Turku to educator and priest Henrik Heikel and Wilhelmina Johanna Schauman. He had ten siblings, including brother Felix Heikel , a bank manager and politician and sister Anna Heikel, head of the School for the Deaf. In 1873 Heikel married Hanna Kihlman. He was father to doctor Allan Phayllos Heikel and ethnologist Yngvar Heikel . He was also cousin to ethnographer Axel Heikel and philologist Ivar Heikel.
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